Rubens and his Legacy
dal 24/9/2014 al 3/1/2015
Segnalato da
24/9/2014
Rubens and his Legacy
Bozar - Centre for Fine Arts, Bruxelles
Sensation and Sensuality. The exhibition looks at the impact of Rubens on the art of painting, from van Dyck to Gainsborough and from Delacroix to Kokoschka. It brings together some 160 works, including some iconic paintings by Rubens himself and, more particularly, works by his artistic heirs.
Peter Paul Rubens was
one of
the m
o
st
innovativ
e painters in
the history of art.
His
impact o
n
subsequent
generati
on
s
has been
immens
e. For
the first time,
the
Royal
Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA)
, the Royal Academy of Arts
in
London,
and
BOZAR
in
Brussel
s have joined forces to look at
R
ubens a
s
a
rol
e
model.
The
exhibition
Sensati
on
and
Sensuality:
Rubens and his Legacy
brings together some 160 works, including some iconic paintings by Rubens himself and, more particularly, works by his artistic heirs.
It
is a paradox
th
at
Peter Paul Rubens
(1577
–
1640)
is both inimitable and has served, for four
centuries now, as
the great model
for
painters
such
as
Rembrandt
,
Murillo
,
Watteau
,
Fragonard
,
Gainsborough
,
Reynolds
,
Delacroix
,
Cézanne
,
Renoir
,
Kokoschka
,
and
many
others, often far beyond the frontiers of Europe
.
Even
in
the work of
Picasso
,
we encounter his visual
language
.
The international exhibition
Sensation
and Sensuality. Rubens and h
is Legacy
looks at this
phenomenon and brings works by these celebr
ated artists to the world
-
renowned Flemish master's
homeland.
Sensational and sensual
Many
Rubens
works are
sensation
a
l
: l
o
ud,
forceful, and sometimes violent
,
created
in
the service of
C
atholi
c
propaganda and
of
absolutist
rulers
.
With his almost
cinematograph
i
c
depiction of
aggression
,
fighting,
and
barba
r
ic scenes
, Rubens
could be called
the Quentin Tarantino
of his time.
But he is also
a
s
ensua
l
painter in
his
inform
a
l famil
y
portr
aits
, landscape
s
and
pastoral scenes
,
peasant
dan
ce
s and
gardens
of love, in which he was a precursor of
R
ococo,
R
omanti
cism,
and
Impressionism.
Rubens was so many
-
sided that he appealed to artists of every nationality
.
Their interest was often
selective.
Span
i
ard
s
preferred his
religi
o
u
s
works
.
The
Eng
l
i
s
h
were
inspired by his portraits and
landscapes.
Fr
e
n
ch
painters
were attracted, above all, by the eroticism and poetry
in
his
work.
German
and
Au
stri
an
artists
admired his
vitality and vigour.
A great many
talented artists
were captivated by his use of
composi
ti
on
,
co
l
o
ur
,
and
techni
qu
e and
developed flourishing careers by following his example
.
After meeting
Rubens
,
Velázquez
began to
paint in a different way; following his counsel, he used a lighter undercoat.
160 works of art, 6 themes
The
Sensation
and
S
ensuality
exhibition presents more than 160
works of art and
takes
the
visito
r
through
s
ix
fascinating
themes
that explore different aspects of life and of the painter's art
:
violence
,
power
,
lust, compassion
, elegan
c
e
,
and
po
etry
.
Each of these chapters demonstrate
s
the links between
m
a
ster
pieces by
Rubens and
the work of
artists
who came after
h
i
m.
The
Ti
ger
Hun
t
from the
Musée des Beaux
-
Arts in Rennes hang
s alongside the Delacroix
L
io
n
Hun
t
from
Stockholm
and
the
voluptuous
Pan and Syrinx
from
the Gemäldegalerie
i
n Kassel
alongside
Boucher
's work of the
same name
from
the National Gallery
in
London;
the
portrait of
Mar
chese Maria
Grimaldi and
He
r
D
w
a
r
f
from
Kingston Lacy i
s juxtaposed with
A
Geno
ese
Noblewoman
and
He
r
S
on
from
Washington,
by
Rubens
's famous pupil v
an Dyck; and
Manet's
Rubens
pastiche
Fishing
from the
Metropolitan Museum in New York
can be seen alongside
The Bacchanalia on
Andros
by Rubens,
from the
Nationalmuseum in Stockholm.
The
20 paintings, 6 oil sketches, 8 drawings, and 10 prints by Rubens
himself are presented
in a dialogue with
works by
his artistic heirs, including
Böcklin, Carpeaux, Constable, Corinth, Coypel,
Daumier, Delacroix, Fragonard, Gainsborough, Géricault, Jordaens, Klimt, Kokoschka, Le Brun,
Makart, Murillo, Picasso, Rembrandt
, Renoir, Reynolds, Sandrart, Turner, Watteau, and others.
Prestigious loans
Exceptionally,
one of the jewels of the Prado collection in Madrid, Rubens's
Garden of
Love
, will travel to Brussels,
where it will be brought together with preparatory sketches from the
Amsterdam Museum and tw
o
drawings
that
Rubens
made of his painting for a superb print
(Metropolitan Museum, New York).
Bringing these pieces together allows us to see how this famous
comp
osition took shape, from idea to
reproducti
on.
As well as those already mentioned, major
foreign
lending institutions
contributing include
Tate
Britain (London), the
Neue Pinakothek (Mu
n
i
ch), the Nasjonalgalleriet (Oslo),
Her Majesty Queen
Eli
z
abeth II
,
an
d
a number of
priv
ate
collections.
Sensation and Sensuality
is an exhibition organised
by the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
(KMSKA), the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and BOZAR (Centre for Fine Arts), Brussels. After the
show at the Centre for Fine Arts Brussels the exhibition will travel to the Royal Academy of Arts in
London (23.01 - 10.04.2015)
Image: Eugène Delacroix The Final Reconciliation of Marie de' Medici with her son Louis XIII, 1828 Oil on canvas 62 x 51 cm Wallraf-Richartz Museum & Foundation Corboud, Cologne Photo Photo: Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln
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